Violence during protests in Hong Kong will push the city towards a future from which there can be no return, the city's leader Carrie Lam said Tuesday.
"Violence, no matter if it's using violence or condoning violence, will push Hong Kong down a path of ...

Hong Kong carrier Cathay Pacific warned its staff Monday that they could be fired if they "support or participate in illegal protests," as the airline comes under pressure from Beijing.
The warning follows new regulations imposed by China's aviation regulator requiring Cathay Pacific to submit ...

The American photographer who shot the iconic image of a man standing in front of tanks at the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests in Beijing says it is time for the Chinese government to come clean about the bloody events of 30 years ago.
Jeff Widener ...

Shops shuttered in the run-up to Christmas, chaos on the roads: France's "yellow vest" protests are dealing a blow to the economy, which Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said is no less than a "catastrophe."
As riots flared in Paris on Saturday, Livio Forte, ...

Catalonia's separatist executive was Tuesday accused of playing a "dangerous" game after the regional leader encouraged radical independence activists to carry out disruptive acts on the anniversary of a banned referendum that culminated in clashes.
Hundreds of separatist protesters knocked down barriers at the regional ...

Demonstrators angry about the election of Donald Trump smashed windows and set garbage bins on fire early Wednesday in downtown Oakland, California, joining protesters elsewhere in the country who swarmed streets in response to the election. Other protests were generally peaceful.
In Oregon, dozens of ...

Black Lives Matter held demonstrations in Minnesota and California on Wednesday to protest police killings of unarmed blacks, dubbing the day "Black Xmas" to show it could affect the economy on one of the busiest shopping days of the year.
"Black communities across the United ...

Tens of thousands of people took to the streets of Brazil on Sunday for anti-government demonstrations across the continent-sized country.
It was the second such day of protests in less than a month and comes as polls show Dilma Rousseff, four months into her second ...

Combating what they call an effort to turn Japan into "a pro-war country," 2,500 people formed a human chain around the Diet building at noon Tuesday to protest the Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's drive to reinterpret the pacifist Constitution.
A private panel of security experts ...

The crowds who called for revolution in Cairo, Istanbul, Bangkok and Kiev in 2013 were not the impoverished losers of globalization. They were mostly the economic winners: middle-class, educated, English-speaking. So why were they rebelling?

The demonstrations in Brazil began after a small rise in bus fares triggered mass protests. Within days this had become a nationwide movement whose concerns had spread far beyond fares: more than a million people were on the streets shouting about everything from corruption ...